Volume 24 • No. 3 • March 2000

DeMerger to be official April 1

Dean search expected to give VP more time for clinical leadership

Home Care services to operate separately

Former associate dean Steward dies

Body Image study
 
 

PAST ISSUES



 
CANCER light 
- Richard I. Whyte, chief of the Division of Thoracic Surgery, uses Stanford Hospital and Clinics' new LaserScope KTP-Yag laser as part of a procedure to shrink lung and esophageal tumors. The procedure can improve breathing and reduce discomfort for patients whose tumors can't or shouldn't be removed surgically. Patients, usually outpatients, are injected with porfimer sodium, a light-activated drug that is retained by the malignant cells but cleared from normal cells. About 48 hours after injecting the drug, physicians expose the tumor to light from a laser by threading a thin fiber-optic probe into the esophagus or bronchial tubes.
SHC, LPCH Emergency Numbers = 211

The number to report emergencies is now 211 for Stanford Hospital, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and the Boswell Building, while all other school of medicine buildings will continue to call 286. 

LPCH has used 211 since its opening in 1994. Stanford Hospital and Clinics is changing its emergency number so that a single number can be used to report codes and emergencies, said Per Schenck, environmental health and safety coordinator at the Medical Center. 

"Code Blue" will be the code word for cardiac/respiratory arrest at both Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and Stanford Hospital and Clinics, with "Code Blue Peds" for pediatric codes and "Code Blue Adult" for adult codes.xxxxxxx
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